Israel Launches Strikes on Beirut’s Suburbs
The Israeli army confirmed it had initiated strikes on Beirut, asserting the operations were aimed at dismantling Hezbollah infrastructure embedded within the densely populated southern districts. The news agency reported two distinct strikes on the area.
Earlier the same day, Hezbollah announced that Israeli ground forces had withdrawn from positions in southern Lebanon following direct clashes with its fighters — a rare tactical retreat that the group framed as a battlefield victory. In separate statements, Hezbollah also claimed it had launched swarms of drones against Israeli military installations in the north, striking the Ein Zeitim base north of Safed with loitering munitions and hitting the Rafael military industries complex south of Acre with attack drones.
The current surge in hostilities traces back to Monday, when Hezbollah fired rockets and drones at a military site in northern Israel — a retaliation the group linked to relentless Israeli bombardment of Lebanon and the death of Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei in the ongoing US-Israeli assault on Iran. Israel responded ferociously, unleashing a series of airstrikes that killed at least 72 people and wounded nearly 450 others, while simultaneously launching a ground incursion into southern Lebanon.
The escalation has effectively buried a ceasefire agreement brokered between Israel and Hezbollah in November 2024. Despite the accord, Israel has conducted near-daily strikes on Lebanese soil, accumulating a death toll that critics say renders the agreement hollow. Israel's military campaign against Lebanon, which began in October 2023 and escalated into full-scale war by September 2024, has now killed more than 4,000 people and wounded approximately 17,000 others.
Meanwhile, the wider regional crisis shows no sign of abating. The US-Israeli military offensive against Iran, now entering its fifth consecutive day since launching Saturday, has killed nearly 900 people — among them Supreme Leader Khamenei and multiple senior military commanders. Tehran has responded with retaliatory drone and missile barrages directed at Israel and at Gulf nations hosting US military personnel, raising alarm across the international community about the prospect of an all-out regional war.
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